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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-14

PALESTINE, Texas, April Is, 1SS7.-TO whom
it may concern: This is to certify that Or.
FraI Tanning cured very severe attack of
neuralgia, with which was suffering, in less
than a minute, and have felt no return of it
since.
To all those suffering with such complaint 1
checriuIIy recommend him.
S. a. MCMEANs,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-14
Miss KATE HUNTER

The cure of my daughter by DR.. Tanning is
true, and / cheerfully recommend him to all
who desire relief, as they will derive benefit
from his treatment.
n. W. HUNTER,
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MAGNETIC PHENOMENA.
CURES WITHOUT MEDICINE. BY lay
ING ON OF HANDS,

Rheumatism, Neuralgia. Paralysis, Gout,
Headache, Indigestion, Kidney and
Liver Complaints, and Fe-
male Troubles.
Female troubles, and, in fact, all chronic
diseases successfully treated and relieved at
once without the use of medicine or the
knife by magnetism or human electricity,
natures own cure. Below we present IA
few testimonials from patients the doctor has
cured. Read them, for they are all true. If
you are suffering call on the doctor at once
He makes no charge for consultation, and
should you desire his treatment his charges
are always reasonable.
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AGENTS FOR THE LIGHT.

ENTERED AT PosToFFICE AT SAN ANTONIO,
TEXAS, As sECoND-CLAss MATTER
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-14

THREE FINE LOTS FOR S75-Lots 1, 2. and
Il 3, in block 81, original city lot No. 8, range
2 east side of San Antonio river. T. B. john
IN LIGHT office. aft
, 1887-05-13
STREET CAR HORSES.

A Philosophical Driver DiEcouraes on
Their Lives, Labors and Death.
Few people stop to think under how
severe q strain the horses that draw ouI
street cars labor. They are generally
driven at n brisk trot, and the frequent
stops are too brief to afford them any
rest. In fact, the oftener a horse with a
heavy load stops, simply to start again, the
worse of he is.
"a good horse will last in this business
four or FIVE years" said n Broadway car
driver the other day. "Unusually good
ones may stand it longer, but they are
much more apt to give out in a shorter
time. Sometimes they go all to pieces in
two or three months That gray horse
there has been working to the cars for
over three years, and he seems just as
good as ever. A match to him, bought
at the same time, didn't last two
months"
"How do they usually become af-
fected?" was asked.
Every often the fore feet give out.
Sometimes the shoulders become di-
seased. OF course you know that q horse
strikes his fore feet much harder than he
does his hind oncs. SO when he is driven
ut a lively gait, with little time to rest,
llltDC hAAld NlllGD mt@l III Olt lNtN "
the quick or cause n tenderness in the
shoulders, If the shoulders go lame first
we drive the horse a while at night, when
the people can't see him limp. When he
gets too bad ho is sold. If his feet go, the
company gets rid of him as soon as pos
siblc.
"a great many horses seriously injure
themselves by slipping and falling in the
winter Sometimes these hnya tn bp
killed. Collie takes off a great many. The
deaths of a very large majority of street
car horses may be traced to the accidents
and necessities of the service. They must
be driven pretty fast or people wouldn't
ride. So the weak N oon fall victims,
and the strongest are lucky if they 1.-Two
long enough to be sold to some farmer,
and go TO the country to end their days
in comparative peace"
''Then that's where the broken down
horses go, is it,"
"Ye5. Many horses that are useless on
our paved streets do very well on u farm.
Their sore feet and shoulders improve
very much when they are driven over
soft ground"
Hundreds of horses are sold to farmers
every year by the street car companies.
They are nursed and doctored up by their
rural purchasers until they become very
respectable looking animals again. Thus
the farmers get much gool work out of
horses that couldn't earn their oats
here, and they buy them cheap, too 1
have heard that some of these country
men make n business of buying up broken
down street car horses, doctoring them,
and reselling them to other companies at
n high price. OF course it is only "a short
time before IA doctored horse is again
worthless here, and then the farmer
comes around and buys him back at his
own price. This is kept up as long as tho
poor beast a be made to put on n re-
spectable appearance. There re some
queer doings in this world of ours" said
the driver, AZ he whipped up the poor
beasts SO rs to get to the city hall on
schedule time.
, 1887-05-13
somo curio.itie, of rari. Law.

A little book has been published re-
Gently which gives the public some in
sight into the functions and power of the
prefect of Paris. No one is allowed to
stick o note on door or window asking
for an employee or post a bill on q board
ing unless it be stamped and taxed. Adj
vertisers may adopt any color they
please, except white, which signifies
purity, and is exclusively reserved for
official announcements. Special permits
sion is required to give an assault at
arms, but nothing is said about permits
sion to fight a duel. If any one comes TO
Paris with the idea that he can start bust
ness right off as a ragpicker, he is mis-
taken. He will be run in if found gather
ing rags without a license.
No reunion or meeting for political
or religious objects can meet without the
consent of the project, n under what
ever conditions he pleases. In order to
hold meeting on a ~non-political subject
seven persons connected with it must
make a declaration at the prefecture
three clear days before the day of meet
ing. Special permission is required to
give balls and concerts and to perform
feats of agility in music halls. Owing to
the exigencies of the octroi, cattle and
live stock are only allowed to enter Paris
at certain hours of the day and by GER
tain routes. Merchants of brio a brac
must be supplied with brass medals and
licensed. Dogs are made the subject of
a series of regulations. Frenchmen seem
to nave a terror of the bull dog, for it is
decreed that mo dog of the race boule
dogue or a crossed boule doSuo must be
allowed to go at large in the street, in
warehouses, workshops or other public
places. Inside houses these dogs must
always be kept in string OF muzzled."
Commissionaires must make a declara-
ton and get a medal and livret before
starting business. COMMISSIONERS are
shoeblacks.
No organ grinder, street musician or
itinerant merchant can exercise his pro-
fession without permission from the pre-
feet. No permission is granted unless
the applicant has resided at least a year
within the jurisdiction of the project and
is French. The street musicians, how
ever, sometimes play without permission.
Should n concierge be in a particularly
amiable turn he will allow an Italian to
play within his gates, where he is as alb
solute as the project. The project sup
plies workmen with ~livrets, without
which they are not worth anything.
Porters at the public markets must have
a certificate of good conduct from the
police. Any n who saves a drowning
person in the river, either by calling at
tention to or rescuing him, gets twenty
five francs; whoever discovers a corpse,
or part of a corpse, in the river, receives
fifteen francs; for rescuing a horse six
francs are allowed. Republican guards
employed at theaters or balls are paid
one franc per night; if On horseback one
and a half francs. For a private soiree
they get five francs.-Chicago Times.
, 1887-05-13

Up to the time 1 now speak of L had
taken n hand in the %skinning of fourteen
butfalos out of our twenty, but in every
instance we had been so hurried and
pressed for time that l had actually not
even n opportunity to make such
sketches and measurements of dead bull
as l needed and desired. True, l had
measured them all as fully as circum-
stances would permit, but what / wanted
was n good long hour with a buffalo
while he was still warm. Well, while
Jim was fetching the wagon, 1 had it at
last. l made studies of the old bull to my
hearts content. 1 sketched him again
and again, and measured him until page
after page of my well worn note book
was covered with figures and diagrams.
lie was n monster, even under the tape
line, and as handsome as he was big.
After we skinned him l measured his
carcass Owe and over, so that in building
a manikin to put his skin over when it
came to the last act 1 could make it exact
at every point. Such privileges are of
priceless value to the taxidermist who
has the mounting of great beasts.-W.
7. Hornaday in New York Sun.
, 1887-05-13

SMUGGLING along a frontier line so
imaginary as that which divides this
country from Mexico cannot easily be
prevented, and the pending effort to pun.
ish is somewhat unusual. 1t would cost
more than all the duties to stop the con-
traband trade, especially when goods OF
American manufacture can be bought
more cheaply in Mexico than in the Unit
ed States. A reciprocity treaty is what
both republics need-the one, for an ad.
vantageous market; the other, for a cheap
supply.
, 1887-05-13
The Ape a. a useful Animal.

Apes probably rank next to man in
general intelligence, and, though they
lack perseverance,, there seems to be no
reason for doubling that they might be
trained to do n variety Of useful work.
This is the opinion of Nine. Clemence
Roger, the French translator of Darwin,
but she points out that the domesticated
apes would require great quantities OF
such food as fru-, bread and eggs, tina.
the process of educating them would be
costly, and that for many generations the
climate Of Europe would be too severe
for them. She suggests that the expert
ment should he tried first in tropical
countries, where the apes might aid III
cultivating coffee. cocoa and cotton
Arkansaw Traveller.
, 1887-05-13

The echidna is considered by natural
lists one of the rarest and most peculiar
creations of the animal kingdom. 1t is
the first cousin of the duck billed
platypus. The specimen at the ZOO, ex-
cept a stuffed one at the Academy of
Natural Sciences, is the only one in
America, and was brought direct from
Australia, where it was captured.
1t is about the size of an ordinary por-
cupine, which it greatly resembles, being
covered with long quilts, but it has n
bill shaped nose nearly three inches long,
from which protrudes a narrow tongue
six inches in length. Its mouth is ex-
ceedingly small, and it has no teeth.
Its legs are short and powerful, and its
feet are armed with thick claws that can
burrow 50 rapidly that the animal can
almost instantaneously disappear in the
earth. Unlike ether burrowing animals,
he burrows with all four feet at once,
and instead of going in head first he
gracefully sinks into the earth, with his
spine curved and bristling with a formid-
able armor of quilts.
IN its right hind leg is a sharp spur,
similar to a fighting cocks, three inches
long. A little canal, connecting with a
gland, runs through it and keeps it sup
piled with a poisonous liquid, which is
said to produce instantaneous death. The
most peculiar feature of this strange
creature, however, is that it regularly
lays eggs of a dark purple hue. When
on its native heath its diet consists of
ants and other insects, but yesterday it
enjoyed u hearty meal of condensed milk
and the white of an egg.-Philadelphia
Times.
, 1887-05-13

At Nuchuk any amount of sport is OBJ
tainable. To begin with, the rivers TEEN
with salmon. These are of various kinds.
The rivers close by Nuchuk contained the
hoghack, the dog and the silver varieties.
There are three miles to traverse to reach
the nearest river, and here l trusted my
self to one of the far famed bidarkies.
TIL first one was too small, but the next
was large enough, and, with an Indian
boy in the hatch behind to help me pad
die, away we went across the bay. Along
side was lashed our salmon spear. The
water was absolutely filled with fish. l
disdained the hogback and would have
nothing but the silver salmon. He was
only to be found in the upper pools. The
river Swallowed and became u mere brook
let.
The salmons' backs projected above the
surface, for the depth was four inches
exactly. Rows of fish were working their
way up stream out of the sea, and they
scuttled away as we advanced, wetting us
from head to foot, like miniature steamer
with their propellcrs half out of the water.
Blu the silver salmon we were in quest
of were taking their ease in a dignifed
name at the bottom of a deep, placid
pool, overshadowed by trees, and it re-
quired all the length we could command
in the handle of III spear to reach them
at that depth. We stepped cautiously on
to a projecting rock and gradually in
serted the point of the spear into the
water. The first two lunges We're success
full, and each time a lordly fish was lifted
on to the bank, struggling furiously.
When mt last we tired of the sport. ten
salmon We're all that we dragged behind
us to the canoe. There were plenty of sea
trout, too; the bottom of the pool APP
peared to lie paved with something dark
and cloudy that swayed to and fro with
the current like masses of weed. But by
degrees us we watched the weed masses,
we perceived them to be sea trout. and by
darting the spear among them at random
we transtixed n three FOUNDER, which
looked inviting, with his bright red spots.
Alaska Cor. st. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
, 1887-05-13

In ACCEPTING the Garfield statue in
the name Of the American people, Presi-
dent Cleveland showed himself equal to
the occasion by delivering a simple, earnest
and fcrcible address, the sentiments of
which must meet with general commend
alton. No mere graces of rhetoric could
have added to the effect of the straight
forward and sensible remarks in which
the chief magistrate voiced the patriotic
feeling of the mighty nation which he has
been exalted to serve, and to continue the
-holly unsectional policy begun by Gar
field as the first president chosen by the
free and untrammeled suffrage OF a re-
united people.
, 1887-05-13
Dr.. &Cu.
sPHCIAhIsTs

We ofer no apology for deyoting so much time
and attention to this much neglected class of
diseases believing that no condition of humanity
Is too wretched to merit the sympathy and best
services Of the profession to which we belong
as many are innocent sufferers, and that
the physician who devOtes himself
to relieving the afflicted and saving
them from worse than death, Is no less a
philanthrophist and a beneiactor TO his race
THAI the surgeon or physician who by close APP.
~plication ex sells In any other branch of his pro-
ession And. fortunately for humanity, the day
IS dawning when the false pnIIsnthrophy that
condemned the victims OF folly or crime, like
the lepers under the Jewish law. to die uncared
for, has passed away.
, 1887-05-13

MASSACHUSETTS under Republican rule
has lost no opportunity of discriminating
against her foreign born citizens. and in
pursuance OF this policy enacted many
years ago a law %forbidding naturalized
voters from registering within thirty days
after acquiring citizenship. This law has
just been declared unconstitutional by the
supreme court of the state.
, 1887-05-13
IT TURNS out, after all, that the utmost

IT TURNS out, after all, that the utmost
proposed by Lord Salisbury was the alter.
native Of reciprocity or a mixed commits
sion to settle the fisheries dispute. 1t was
hardly in keeping with the lingo policy
which marks Tory rule to concede even so
much, but Ireland is too manifest a source
of weakness to permit a more aggressive
policy, especially toward the United States.
The Canadian premier says he knows
, 1887-05-13
nIrhe.t Paid Journalists.

The writers on The London Times are
the highest paid journalists in Europe.
The special correspondents in the various
social capitals are given establishments
that entitle them to n footing OF equality
with the diplomatic Representatives. In
Rome The Times has only recently fin
ished the building of a handsome house
for the exclusive use and comfort Of its
correspondent ut that point.
, 1887-05-13

MEDINA county, Texas. has pe~titioned
the governor to call a special session OF
the Legislature to relieve its population
against the famine caused by drouth,
while dispatches from San Antonio, fifty
miles away, state hat there is little sui.
tering except among the very improvi-
dent, and that the reports of damage to
crops and pasturage have been greatly
exaggerated.
, 1887-05-13

nothing of any proposal 10 suspend the
operations OF the cruisers. and the seizure
of American vessels will probably be re-
sumed, in whi,h case it is entirely safe to
predict that President Cleveland will eI-
ercise the authority vested in him by CON
gress and proclaim some effective retail at
DRY measure-and the more retaliatory
the better, ever to the extent of an IN
barge on all commerce.
, 1887-05-13

''Menaced by the enemy, and saved by
Hebette, b~oulanger" Cbaker), is the in
scription over one of the gates of the old
city of Metz. The French inhabitants
point with a smile to this tribute to the
heroism of one boulanger and talk signifi-
cantly of another. Before Bazaine, Metz
had never surrendered to IN enemy since
the Romans fortified it.-Frank Leslie's.
, 1887-05-13

WHEN Austria and Prussia made peace
after the battle of Sadowa, or KONG
Gratz there were certain secret articles in
the treaty, which Count Andrassy now
asks permission of the emperor Of Austria
to disclose. According to precedent, this
indicates hat the %stipulations have already
been broken.
, 1887-05-13

An inventor in Auburn, Me-, who says
that he has worked $50 days of ten hours
Zach in b last two years, and very few
Of them OF Sundays, attributes his en-
du.ance largely TO the fact that he cats
but one meal in twenty-fouI hours. and
that very simple.-ChicaSo Times.
, 1887-05-13

AS was to have been expected, the re-
ported execution of Mexican officers for
violating the American frontier turns out
a canard. Everyone aware of public
opinion in the sister republic knows that
promotion would follow such an outrage,
much more surely than death.
, 1887-05-13

BRIr1sH difficulties with Hayti have
been anlicably adjusted by the pay
ment of satisfactory indemnity. British
demands are very apt to be satisfied in
this way, especially when the party of the
second part is too weak to resist.
, 1887-05-13

B~oYcorTING, disreputable enough as a
remedy for the private grievances of indi-
viduals, becomes wholly contemplate
when resorted to BY a great nation like
France, yet factories have been closed be-
cause of their employment of Germans,
and this in a country which calls itself a
republic.
, 1887-05-13

A BERLIN editor has just been SEN
fenced to one months imprisonment for
libelllng the political character of
Prince Bismarck. This is what makes
the German press so unanimous in sup
port OF government.
, 1887-05-13

Four of the FIVE commanders of tho
Army of tie Cumberland are yet living,
and three, Rosecrans, Sheridan and
Sherman, were present at the ceremonies
yesterday in Washington. Buell. was un-
avoidably absent and Thomas, the great
est of all, has already been honored by a
statue of his W
, 1887-05-13

The Deseret Me1os-Mormon rgan-
threatens to resist federal laws, what
ever undesirable results may accrue"
Such vaporing resembles the hiss of a
serpent deprived of its fangs.
, 1887-05-13
RATES OFF
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

Daily, delivered by carrier. 25c per week,
81 per month.
Daily, bv mail. 81 Der month. s5.OO for six
months, go per year, 81 advance.
Weekly S2U per snnum, sl.5O for six months,
ga yable In advance.
, 1887-05-13

A THOUSAND delegates attendad the
Kentucky Republican state convention,
the party turning out in mass.
, 1887-05-13

The mobiliIing Of a large Austrian
force near the Turkish frontier may indi
cate another international land grab.
, 1887-05-13

A MEMBER of the French institute. Jean
Baptiste Joseph Diendonne Bonssingault,
is dead. He survived his baptism eighty
Eve years.
, 1887-05-13
MEN.

There are many men Of the age of 30 to 10 whc
are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder, often accompanied by a slight
smarting or burning sensation and a weakening
of the system In a manner the patient cannCt
account for. On examining the urinary deposits
a ropy sediment will often be found, and some.
times small particles OF albuIuen will appear, or
changing to a dark and turbid appearance.
There are many men who die of this difficulty
ignorant OF the cause, which Is the second stage
Of seminal weakness. DR.. Wagner will guaran-
tee a cure In all such cases and a healthy restora.
ton OF the genlto-urinary organs, Consultation
free. Thorough examination and advice, So 90,
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Denver Daily News and Tribune-Republ-
can.
, 1887-05-13
YOUNG MEN

Who may be suffering from the effects OF youth
full follies or indiscretiUus, will do well TO avail
themselves Of this the greatest boon ever laid
the alter of suffering humanity. DR.. WAC
4 will guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
lars for every case of seminal Weakness or pri-
yate disease of any kind or character which he
undertakes and fails To cure
, 1887-05-13
Legal Blanks at the Leader Office.

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives
, 1887-05-13
ZAIamza@a3
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We the undersigned Banks and Bankers Will
pay all prizes drawn In The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun-
tiers
j T.. Oglesby. Pres. Louisiana National Bank.
Pierre LanauN, Pres. State National Bank.
\ baldwin Pres. New Orleans National Bank.
Carl knhn. Pres. Union National Pa K
, 1887-05-13
Louisiana State Lottery Comply

4" We do hereby certify that le supervise The ar
u~n0enentsT for al the Month"; md SENT
drawings OF the Loutstdrd State Lottery Gum
pdny, and i'i person manage and control The
Drawings themselves, and thai the san c are con-
dLcfed Uth honesty, fairness, and IN good faith
tot0drd all parties, and zoe dtaitoTfSe The Gum
pdny 10 use this certificate, Nth JLcSinliteS of our
FDnotIreS attached in its ndpeTtiSemenls."
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-04
Work on the G. ". s. e. Road.
Register, 4Itgust ,.

Colonel S. NJ. Rice was in the city last
night and informed the reporter OF the
Register that he had completed the last
contract for grading on the Columbia,
Newberry and LaurenS Road, which
carries the work within fifteen miles OF
Prosperity, making twenty miles which
has been graded from Columbia.
Arrangements for grading the remain
ing distance will probably be made ut
the next meeting of the directors, and in
the meantime Rice & Coleman are mov-
ing their force and plant over to Chester
County to work on the North Carolina
and Georgia road which is i'll progress
through that county.
COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP BONDS.
The bonds of columbia Township, is
sued to make the $4,000 subscription to
the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens
Railroad, were yesterday signed by the
County Commissioners and the Clerk OF
the Board, and will be turned over to
the railroad authorities as soon as the
Clerk completes the signing Of the cou-
pons. on which work he was busily en-
gagged most Of yesterday.
These bonds are Is in number, and
are divided into three groups as to ma
turity, "a maturing in tift?en years, "a
in twenty years and p in twenty-five
years. OF the first or fifteen year bonds
there are eight each OF the deuomina-
ton OF 500, $500 and $1,000, and the
same number of each denomination in
the twenty year bonds. OF the same
denominations there are nine each OF
the twenty-five year bonds.
The interest on The bonds at the rate
named therein, six per cent, will be {:
For the fifteen year bonds, s1l,520; for
the twenty year. SIS, 800; for the twenty
five year, $4,000; total interest to be
paid in twenty-five years s4s,*So, which
with the principal will amount to $751;
4S0.
OF course from this sum is to be de-
Quoted the dividends of the railroad
stock, whatever they may be in this
term OF years, to get the correct amount
of the city's investment at the end OF a
quarter century hence.